World Mental Health Day (WMHD) is a day for global mental health education, awareness and advocacy. An initiative of the World Federation for Mental Health (link is external), WMHD is an annual program held on 10 October to raise public awareness of mental health issues worldwide.
This year in Australia, WMHD has three objectives:
- Encourage help seeking behaviour
- Reduce the stigma associated with mental illness
- Foster connectivity throughout communities
The 2015 WMHD campaign aims to achieve these goals by
encouraging people to take personal ownership of their own mental health
and wellbeing.
To do this, the campaign focusses on a simple, personal mental health promise that can be made by anyone, regardless of their own mental health.
You don’t have to have a mental illness to take part, you just need
to have an interest in your own good health, which is important to
everyone.
Mental Health Australia is delighted to be leading the WMHD campaign
in Australia. As the peak not-for-profit organisation representing the
mental health sector in Australia, Mental Health Australia has a focus
on ensuring the whole community recognises the part we all play in
creating a mentally healthy societ
